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The List of New Deal murals is a list of murals created in the United States as part of a federally sponsored New Deal project. This list excludes murals placed in post offices, which are listed in List of United States post office murals. Source is Park and Markowitz’s Democratic Vistas unless otherwise specified.
Alabama
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History Museum of Mobile[1] | John Augustus Walker |
Alaska
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Arizona
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Arkansas
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California
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George Washington High School (San Francisco) | Life of Washington | Victor Arnautoff | 1936 | 13 scenes [2] | ||
Santa Monica Public Library | Invention and Imagination | ![]() |
Stanton Macdonald-Wright | 1935 | ||
Coit Tower | Metropolitan Life[3] | Victor Arnautoff | ||||
Canoga Park High School | Assembly Hall (2)[4] | Helen Lundeberg | Petrachrome | |||
Mother's House, Fleishhacker Playground | End walls of the loggia[5] | Helen Bell Bruton, Margaret Bruton | Tile mosaic | PWAP | ||
Mother's House, Fleishhacker Playground | Evolution of Noah's Ark | Dorothy Puccinelli, Helen Forbes | Tempera | PWAP | ||
Los Angeles County Hall of Records | Landing of Cabrillo — 1542[6] | Charles H. Davis | Tempera | FAP | ||
Recreations of Long Beach[6] | Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Henry Allen Nord, Albert King | Mosaic | FAP |
Colorado
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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs[7] | “Classic American theater”[8] | Ward Lockwood | 1935–36[9] | slated for removal[9] |
Connecticut
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Delaware
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District of Columbia
New Deal art was installed in the Social Security building (now HHS), the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice building, the Department of Labor building (now Customs and Immigration), the Apex building (now Federal Trade Commission), the Government Printing Office Annex, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the National Zoological Park, the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds building, the Procurement Division Building (now National Capitol Region Office Building, General Services Administration), and the War Department (now Department of State).[10]
Elsewhere than government building
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Howard University | Emancipation of the American Negro[11] | Daniel Boza | 1938 |
Social Security Building
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Social Security Building | Sports Related to Food | Dorothy Farr, Fred Farr | 1941 | Stored in National Museum of American Art | ||
Social Security Building | Wealth of the Nation, Security of the People | Seymour Fogel | 1942 | |||
Social Security Building | Activities of Four Parts of the Country | Gertrude Goodrich | 1943 | Stored in National Museum of American Art | ||
Social Security Building | Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family | Philip Guston | 1942 | Stage curtain in auditorium | non-mural, non-sculpture | |
Social Security Building | Mountains in Snow | Jenne Magafan, Ethel Magafan | 1949 | |||
Social Security Building | Work, the Family, and Social Security, Child Labor, Unemployment, and Old Age | Ben Shahn | 1942 | fresco |
Main Interior Building
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed | |
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Main Interior Building | Dance Festival | James Auchiah | 1939 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Conservation of the National Parks | Gifford Beal | 1941 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Conservation—Western Lands | Louis Bouche | 1938 | ”in storage” circa 1984 | |||
Main Interior Building | Desert, Irrigation, Gathering Dates, Apples | Nicolai Cikovsky | 1938 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Deer, Peyote Bird and Symbols, Stealing Horses, Flute Player, Courting, Buffalo Hunt | Woodrow Crumbo | 1940 | Native American artist | |||
Main Interior Building | Rush for the Oklahoma Land—1889 and The Homesteading | John Steuart Curry | 1939 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Bureau of Indian Affairs | Maynard Dixon | 1939 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Placer Mining, Fighting Forest Fire, and Winter Round-Up | Ernest Fiene | 1938 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Construction of the Dam | William Gropper | 1939 | ||||
Main Interior Building | “Indian themes” | Velino Herrera | 1939 | Nine panels | |||
Main Interior Building | Singing Love Songs and Apache Round Dance | Allan C. Houser | 1940 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Indian Murals | Allan C. Houser and Gerald Nailor | date unknown | ||||
Main Interior Building | National Parks | David McCosh | 1940 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Indian Theme | Stevan Mopope | 1939 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Hunting Ground and Initiation Ceremony | Gerald Nailor | 1940 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Alaska and Insular Possessions | James Michael Newell | 1939 | ||||
Main Interior Building | Conservation of Wildlife | Henry Varnum Poor | 1939 | Fresco | |||
Main Interior Building | The Negro’s Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of America | ![]() |
Millard Sheets | 1943 | The Arts, Religion, Education, Science |
Department of Justice
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Department of Justice | Contemporary Justice and Man | John Ballator | 1937 | tempera | ||
Department of Justice | Society Freed Through Justice | George Biddle | 1936 | Fresco | ||
Department of Justice | Contemporary Justice and Woman | Emil Bisttram | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Department of Justice | Activities of the Department of Justice | Louis Bouche | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Department of Justice | Movement of the Population Westward, Law Versus Mob Rule | John Steuart Curry | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Department of Justice | The Triumph of Justice, The Defeat of Justice | Leon Kroll | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Department of Justice | Justice Department Bureaus and Divisions | Henry Varnum Poor | 1936 | fresco | ||
Department of Justice | Great Events and Figures of the Law | Boardman Robinson | 1936 | tempera | ||
Department of Justice | Contemporary Justice—the Child | Symeon Shimin | 1940 | tempera | ||
Department of Justice | Man’s Struggle for Justice | Maurice Sterne | 1941 | oil on board; 20 panels |
Department of Labor Building
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Department of Labor | Construction, Power, and Transportation | Charles Trumbo Henry | 1938 | oil on canvas |
National Zoo
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National Zoo | Noah’s Ark, Habitat Backgrounds in Bird and Pachyderm Houses | Domenico Mortellito | 1937 | mural |
Washington, D.C. Recorder of Deeds
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D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Crispus Attucks | Herschel Levit | 1943 | |||
D.C. Recorder of Deeds | The Death of Colonel Shaw at Fort Wagner | ![]() |
Carlos Lopez | 1943 | ||
D.C. Recorder of Deeds | The Battle of New Orleans | Ethel Magafan | 1943 | |||
D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Matthew Henson Planting the American Flag at the North Pole | Austin Mecklem | 1943 | |||
D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Cyrus Tiffany at the Battle of Lake Erie | Martyl Schweig | 1943 | |||
D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Frederick Douglass Appeals to President Lincoln | ![]() |
William Edouard Scott | 1943 | ||
D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Benjamin Banneker | Maxine Seelbinder | 1943 |
Procurement Division Building
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Procurement Division Building | Construction of Treasury buildings and Procurement Division activities | Harold Weston | 1936–38 | TRAP, 22 panels, oil on canvas |
Florida
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Georgia
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Hawaii
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Idaho
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Illinois
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Legler Library, Chicago | Father Marquette's Winter in Chicago | Richard Fayerweather Babcock | 1934 | [12] |
Indiana
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Iowa
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Kansas
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Kentucky
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Louisiana
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Maine
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Maryland
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Massachusetts
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Michigan
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East Lansing, Michigan Auditorium, MSU |
Proclamation of Emancipation | ![]() |
Charles Pollock | 1943 | [13] | |
We Assure Freedom to the Free | ![]() |
1944 | [13] | |||
The Modern Man I Sing | ![]() |
[13] | ||||
Lansing, Michigan John F Dye Water Conditioning Plant |
Beneficial Force of Water | ![]() |
Frank Cassara | 1940 | [13] | |
Water as Destructive Element | ![]() |
[13] | ||||
Water as Hydro-Electric Power | ![]() |
Charles Pollock | [13] |
Minnesota
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Mississippi
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Missouri
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Montana
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Nebraska
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Nevada
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New Hampshire
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Federal Building (Laconia, New Hampshire) | Wildlife in White Mountains | ![]() |
Musa McKim | 1941 | Former U.S. Forestry Building[14] | [15] |
New Jersey
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Newark City Hall | History of Newark | Michael Lenson | ||||
Weequahic High School | History of the Enlightenment of Man | Michael Lenson | ||||
Roosevelt Community Center | Social and political liberty and justice | Ben Shahn | ||||
Atlantic City Stanley Holmes Village | Education of the Colored Man | Aaron Douglas | ||||
Camden Westfield Acres | Industrial Scenes | Grace Greenwood, Marion Greenwood, | buildings demolished; National Archives images of murals (?) | |||
Newark Museum | Mechanics of Flying, Aerial Map | Arshile Gorky | 1937 | 2 of original 10 survive; originally at Newark Airport Admin Bldg.[17] |
New Mexico
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Rogers Hall New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas |
Dissemination of Education on New Mexico | ![]() |
Lloyd Moylan | 1937 | NRHP[18] | |
Alamagordo Federal Building | Sun and Rain, Sorghum, Yucca | Peter Hurd | 1940 | fresco | ||
Santa Fe Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse | Old Santa Fe Trail, Taos Mountains, Monument Rock, Acoma, Old Cuba Road, Cabezon[11] | William Penhallow Henderson | Six panels, TRAP, begun under PWAP | 1974 |
New York
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North Carolina
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North Dakota
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Ohio
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Lakeview Terrace Housing Project, Cleveland | Legends and Fairy Tales[11] | Earl J. Neff | 1938 | Mural frieze | ||
Lakeview Terrace Housing Project, Cleveland | Children Playing | Charles Campbell (artist) | 1938 | 2 murals | ||
United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe | Vocational Training in the Reformatory | E. Paul Wilhelm | 1938 | 2 murals |
Oklahoma
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Oregon
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Pennsylvania
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Puerto Rico
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Rhode Island
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South Carolina
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Aiken | Justice as Protector and Avenger | ![]() |
Stefan Hirsch | 1938 | oil on canvas Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court House Controversy once caused the mural to be covered and only visible to the public upon request[19] |
South Dakota
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Tennessee
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Texas
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Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse, Fort Worth | The Taking of Sam Bass | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas[20] | ||
Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse, Fort Worth | Texas Rangers in Camp | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas[20] | ||
Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse, Fort Worth | Flags Over Texas | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas[20] |
Utah
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Vermont
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Virgin Islands
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Virginia
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Washington
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Wisconsin
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Wyoming
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See also
- List of New Deal sculpture
- List of United States post office murals
- List of United States federal courthouses
- List of Art Deco architecture in the United States
References
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- ^ "A school's mural removal: Should kids be shielded from brutal US history?". TheGuardian.com. 20 May 2019.
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- ^ “The WPA Projects: PUBLIC ART THROUGHOUT THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY." Los Angeles Times, Nov 13, 1994, pp. 1.
- ^ "The San Francisco Examiner 14 Jan 1934, page 44". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
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- ^ "University of California: In Memoriam, April 1964". texts.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ^ "Classic American Theater Characters". PeakRadar.com. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ^ a b "Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center to remove controversial murals | Arts & Entertainment | gazette.com". gazette.com. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ^ a b Park, Marlene; Markowitz, Gerald E. (1984). Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-348-3. OCLC 10877506.
- ^ a b c d The Art Digest 1938-07-01: Vol 12 Iss 18. Arts Communications Group, L.P. 1938-07-01.
- ^ Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, foreword by Franz Schulze, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002 pp.108-109
- ^ a b c d e f New Deal, Government Architecture, Murals & Sculpture of the 1930s & 1940s: A Walking Tour of East Lansing & Lansing, photographs from the Balthazar Korab Collection, 1988
- ^ "Forestry Building Murals – Laconia NH". The Living New Deal. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
- ^ "NP Gallery, Forestry Building". National Park Service. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
- ^ York, Hildreth; White, Stuart (1980-03-23). "Stalking the Post Office Mural: An Artful Odyssey". The New York Times. p. NJ1.
- ^ L.shirey, David (1982-06-13). "ART; GORKY'S AIRPORT MURALS AT THE NEWARK MUSEUM". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ^ Flynn, Kathryn A., Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture , Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1995 p. 61
- ^ Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. pp. 300 to 364. ISBN 9780816611171.
- ^ a b c "Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse". General Services Administration. Retrieved November 15, 2022.